Newton's Principia, the central Argument

What Hacker News says

1. sytelusAug 2013
   May be it's time to create annotated version of SICP.

   My favorite annotated works:

   Annotated Turing: http://www.charlespetzold.com/annotatedturing/

   Newton's Principia, The Central Argument: http://www.amazon.com/Newtons-Principia-The-Central-Argument...

   That reminds me one of the argument Newton made in his Principia. He said something of the essense that he has intentionally written his Principia in non-friendly dry manner because he wanted readers to have certain degree of discipline and patience and also he wanted to eliminate readers who would just naively attack his works with shallow arguments.

   But that was than. Today readers have came to expect certain level of accessibility. But still no one should tell authors how they need to write books. If you think SICP is not accessible enough, go annotate it with your insights and expanded arguments filled with analogies and examples.

   Show morethread
2. fusiongyroFeb 2013
   Have you tried Newton's Principia: The Central Argument from Green Lion Press?

   http://www.greenlion.com/principi.html

   I have this book, and it's really swell. No calculus, because Newton's Principia doesn't have calculus. It's all geometric arguments. They put Newton's text in red and their commentary in black. I haven't studied it (I'm still trying to work my way through their Euclid) but I like having it on the bookshelf.

   Show morethread